Patterson v. Cooper

This case presents a contest between the father and mother of Fay Patterson, a fourteen-year-old girl, over her custody. The court awarded the custody of the child to the mother, and the father has' appealed. Testimony was offered 'tending to support the right of each parent to the child’s custody, and we can only decide whether the decree of the court_ awarding the custody to the mother was, according to the preponderance of the testimony, for the child’s best interest.

Appellant and appellee were married in 1904, and lived together as husband and wife until 1914, during which time two…